UN Women Australia's 2024 International Women's Day theme 'Count Her In: Accelerating gender equality through economic empowerment.'

Discover what our engineering organisations are doing to attract, empower and retain women in engineering, in a panel discussing HR’s approach to the Pay Gap Disclosure, Pay Secrecy in Contracts, and other ways to address gender pay gap in the engineering industry.

Guest Speakers

Leigh Pickering

Leigh Pickering - Powerlink

Leigh is an experienced senior executive who has held a range of roles at the federal and state level including in the finance, education and transport sectors.

She has extensive experience in delivering on transformational activities and innovation.

At Powerlink, Leigh leads the people and culture, business information technology, communications and customer engagement, and health, safety and environment functions.
 

Rebecca Munn

Rebecca Munn - Queensland RailRebecca is an adaptable and experienced executive with more than 20 years’ experience in management and senior roles, both globally and locally. She has worked across public, government and private organisations. 
Rebecca is passionate and results-driven, and is most effective in large, complex, challenging and diverse environments. She brings a broad range of external experience from multiple industries, including emergency services, mining and manufacturing.
As Group Executive People and Culture, she is responsible for people capability, employee relations, people services, planning our future workforce, digital people solutions and supporting engagement and well-being at Queensland Rail. 

 

Greta McCloy

Greta McCloy - Rio TintoGreta is a distinguished leader in strategy, projects, and change, specialising in HR and Talent at Rio Tinto. With her vast experience in global transformation and management consulting, Greta has successfully collaborated with top-tier organisations to devise, lead, and execute strategies and programs that boost people performance.

Fuelled by her passion for people and organisations, Greta excels in partnering with business leaders. She is adept at pinpointing opportunities and driving effective outcomes to achieve the business’ strategy. Greta’s unwavering dedication to enhancing both individual and organisational performance underscores her commitment and expertise in her field.

 

About WE Panel and Networking Events

Join us for drinks and snacks with engineering industry professionals and Student Leaders to discuss the fun and exciting aspects of engineering that you don’t learn in the classroom. WE warmly invite current engineering students, faculty staff, alumni and industry.

This is a free event, but for catering purposes we ask you to register and provide dietary requirements.

Venue

Advanced Engineering Building (49), Room 301 - St Lucia Campus